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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Fiddling while Rome burns
Posted by Jill | 1:42 PM

Here's the President of the United States, laughing and joking and having a ball on his "prop up my policies" tour, while New Orleans is underwater, people are still waiting for rescue, and hundreds of thousands of people have lost everything.

Bush laughs while New Orleans drowns

Bush laughs while New Orleans drowns

Wouldn't it be at least a friendly gesture for him to perhaps return to Washington and even make a SHOW of caring? We all know he doesn't give a shit, after all, most of the people affected are poor and/or black, but he could at least pretend for a day or so. It wouldn't kill him.

Americans Bush doesn't give a shit about
Americans Bush doesn't give a shit about
Americans Bush doesn't give a shit about
Americans Bush doesn't give a shit about
Americans Bush doesn't give a shit about

UPDATE: Will Bunch reveals how the Bush Administration starved out the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project because of spending pressures related to the Iraq war. No one is saying that Bush could have prevented a hurricane of this magnitude (though his insistence that global warming, if it even exists, has no human component ought to be laughed out of town now), but his starving of everything else in order to feed the Iraq misadventure ought to be subject now to the kind of scrutiny it hasn't been before.

And my guess is that he'll plead poverty on relief and reconstruction as well.
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